H3588A–כִּי–ki

For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

כִּ֤י ki “that”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

כִּ֥י ki “that”

Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [supplied: and] terror, are on every side.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

כִּ֣י ki “that”

Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

כִּ֠י ki “for”

Cut off your hair, [supplied: Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

כִּ֥י ki “that”

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

כִּי֩ ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

כִּ֗י Ki “for”

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

They bend their tongue, [supplied: as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [supplied: else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

כִּ֤י ki “for”